WASHINGTON D.C. - Senior executives of Warner Bros., Hewlett-Packard, VeriSign, Time Warner Cable, Level 3, Symantec, Microsoft, Verizon, BellSouth and other major companies plan to join top government officials and experts, including FCC Chairman Michael K. Powell and U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division chief R. Hewitt Pate, to assess the future of the Internet and the communications sector. They are among the featured participants in The Progress and Freedom Foundation's 10th annual Aspen Summit taking place August 22-24, at the St. Regis hotel in Aspen, Colorado. The following is an agenda of the main speeches and panels:

8:30 a.m. (Grand Ballroom) Plenary Address: IT & the World Economy
Dale Jorgenson, Samuel W. Morris University Prof. of Economics at Harvard University and Director of Kennedy School of Government's Program on Technology and Economic Policy

3:00 p.m. (Grand Ballroom) A Conversation: The Past, What the Founders Would Think About Cyberspace
Walter Isaacson, President, The Aspen Institute and author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
David G. Post, Professor of Law, Temple University and author of the forthcoming, Mr. Jefferson's Cyberspace